Richard Dubourg
@richarddubourg
Economist. Academic, then consultant, then UK government, then EU regulator, now consultant again. Environment, health, crime. Mostly chemicals these days. Woke. Remain. Proportional representation.
Not sure how reliable his interpretation of Henking and Baumberg Geiger is, either, judging by this abstract.
Reports of mental illness (no, mental health problems) have "risen steeply". From 6% to 15%. Reports of limitations on daily activities have "barely budged". From 4.5% to 7.5%. It's this type of lazy "analysis" which explains why this stuff appears in a newspaper rather than somewhere serious.
He can't even get his criticisms right. The Lord Mayor doesn't run the city.
"£5m? That'll do nicely, sir. And would you like to rub my breasts as well?"
Read this, but do not weep for me, children. (ps Who knew the Pope consumes online pornography?)
You know, this is what is so pathetic about social media. You follow someone because of their political commentary. Then they decide you're interested in what they cook. When you tell them you aren't...
Seriously, I'm sure this is how these columnists come up with their ideas:
How would you construct a DiD experiment to test the proposition that smartphone use has contributed to fertility declines? Do you think it would look anything like this? 👇🏻
I gave him a (maybe belated) follow for that. I saw a LSE economics professor on the other place the other day lauding Milei for bringing down poverty. Looking into it, it seems like poverty has fallen in Argentina because people who weren't poor before now are, and poverty is relative, right?